די "וויק" אפיס האט אוועקגעמופט פון זייער יעצטיגע פלאץ אויפ'ן ,17M קיין הערימאן.
די נייע אפיס איז סאך ווייטער פון קרית יואל, און דאס וועט זיין א פראבלעם פאר קרית יואל'ער מאמעס. די ווילידזש פלאנט צו מאכן א נייע באס רוט צו די נייע אפיס.
גדלי' סעגעדין האט געהאט געאפערט פאר די קאונטי צו עפענען אן אפיס אין די עזרת חולים העלט סענטער, אבער די קאונטי האט גע'טענה'ט אז די העלט סענטער איז צו קליין פאר זיי.
די נייע אפיס איז סאך ווייטער פון קרית יואל, און דאס וועט זיין א פראבלעם פאר קרית יואל'ער מאמעס. די ווילידזש פלאנט צו מאכן א נייע באס רוט צו די נייע אפיס.
גדלי' סעגעדין האט געהאט געאפערט פאר די קאונטי צו עפענען אן אפיס אין די עזרת חולים העלט סענטער, אבער די קאונטי האט גע'טענה'ט אז די העלט סענטער איז צו קליין פאר זיי.
Family program has new office
By Chris McKenna
Times Herald-Record
cmckenna@th-record.com
Harriman – Each day, women and children visit an office for help buying basic food that more affluent families might take for granted – baby formula, juice, cereal and the like.
This is the newest location in Orange County for Women, Infants and Children, a 31-year-old federal nutrition program that dispenses advice and financial assistance to help low-income mothers and their young children maintain healthy diets.
It's also the busiest of the county's three WIC offices, serving roughly 3,000 of its 7,000 clients. The other sites are in Middletown and Newburgh.
For about 10 years, the program operated a few miles down the road, in a two-story building the county was leasing on Route 17M in the Village of Monroe.
But much of that 6,000-square-foot building sat empty since the office transferred its records to computer and got rid of all the files it once stored, said Mary Jackson, the nutrition program coordinator for Orange County.
Aside from being too big, the Monroe building also was getting run down and developing problems with its heating and air-conditioning systems.
And so, after looking around for two years, officials decided on a five-year-old medical office building with a 2,600-square-foot space in Harriman that had never been occupied.
Last month, WIC moved in.
As in the old locale, WIC clients visit the office periodically for nutrition counseling, referrals to other services and to receive checks to buy a prescribed list of foods. Amounts vary from $58 a month for each child to $140 a month for each baby, Jackson said. Most come every three months and spend about a half-hour.
County officials are elated with their new office. But the move has posed some transportation problem for Kiryas Joel families, who make up much of the caseload.
The Monroe building was closer to Kiryas Joel and could be reached by bus. That was convenient for mothers from the Hasidic community, whose customs forbid them to drive.
Kiryas Joel officials are considering shifting their municipal bus route so that mothers can ride to the new WIC office. But that might require dropping one or two other stops from the hourly runs, Village Administrator Gedalye Szegedin said.
Before the Harriman site was chosen, he had urged the county to move WIC into the medical center in Kiryas Joel.
But state officials who approve WIC sites rejected that option because the room offered in Kiryas Joel's medical center was too small, Jackson said.
By Chris McKenna
Times Herald-Record
cmckenna@th-record.com
Harriman – Each day, women and children visit an office for help buying basic food that more affluent families might take for granted – baby formula, juice, cereal and the like.
This is the newest location in Orange County for Women, Infants and Children, a 31-year-old federal nutrition program that dispenses advice and financial assistance to help low-income mothers and their young children maintain healthy diets.
It's also the busiest of the county's three WIC offices, serving roughly 3,000 of its 7,000 clients. The other sites are in Middletown and Newburgh.
For about 10 years, the program operated a few miles down the road, in a two-story building the county was leasing on Route 17M in the Village of Monroe.
But much of that 6,000-square-foot building sat empty since the office transferred its records to computer and got rid of all the files it once stored, said Mary Jackson, the nutrition program coordinator for Orange County.
Aside from being too big, the Monroe building also was getting run down and developing problems with its heating and air-conditioning systems.
And so, after looking around for two years, officials decided on a five-year-old medical office building with a 2,600-square-foot space in Harriman that had never been occupied.
Last month, WIC moved in.
As in the old locale, WIC clients visit the office periodically for nutrition counseling, referrals to other services and to receive checks to buy a prescribed list of foods. Amounts vary from $58 a month for each child to $140 a month for each baby, Jackson said. Most come every three months and spend about a half-hour.
County officials are elated with their new office. But the move has posed some transportation problem for Kiryas Joel families, who make up much of the caseload.
The Monroe building was closer to Kiryas Joel and could be reached by bus. That was convenient for mothers from the Hasidic community, whose customs forbid them to drive.
Kiryas Joel officials are considering shifting their municipal bus route so that mothers can ride to the new WIC office. But that might require dropping one or two other stops from the hourly runs, Village Administrator Gedalye Szegedin said.
Before the Harriman site was chosen, he had urged the county to move WIC into the medical center in Kiryas Joel.
But state officials who approve WIC sites rejected that option because the room offered in Kiryas Joel's medical center was too small, Jackson said.